The Lincoln Child Protection Team is on call 24 hours a day. Over the past three years, the NSPCC has radically changed its practice - moving away from the solitary inspector towards the team approach, where staff work jointly on cases and are encouraged to share their problems, stresses and experience.
This has been particularly successful in the handling of sexual abuse cases, where the most painful and delicate decisions have to be made about the future of children at risk.
Photography MIKE FOX Film editor CHRIS WADE Assistant producer SALLY ANNE LOMAS
Producer TAMASIN DAY-LEWIS BBC Pebble Mill